UCU was proud to stand in solidarity at today’s emergency protest for trans rights in London. ✊

Today, and every day, UCU stands with the trans community.

We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. 🏳️‍⚧️

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU #Solidarity

Call for Papers Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary Democratic politics today faces an acute global crisis. Whether couched in terms of democratic backsliding, the rise of right-wing anti-democratic movements, or a transformation of the paradigms of liberal-democracy towards democratic authoritarianism, democratic institutions, political projects and forms of life are under attack. On the one hand, rapidly accelerating ecological collapse driven by neoliberal logics of exploitation and accumulation intensify and exacerbate this crisis. On the other, routinised procedures of politics ‘as usual’ - couched within the paradigm of liberal-democracy – prove inadequate for countering these threats to democratic politics. The concern is, therefore, as much an impoverishment of democratic politics as it is an impoverishment of democratic imagination.

CfP: Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary.

Join us 3-5 July for a symposium to discuss:
- Fugitivity & the politics of refusal
- Anticolonial imaginaries
- Artistic practice & performance
- Democratic innovations

Deadline for abstracts: 4 April
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Material Interests Ways of Commoning The Case of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren | Winchester School of Art | University of Southampton Speakers: Ares Shporta (cultural worker & co-founding director of Lumbardhi Foundation) and Dr Dimitra Gkitsa (Lecturer in Curating & Cultural Leadership at the Department of Art & Media Technology, Winchester School of Art)

First post here to share an exiting event happening tomorrow! Ways of Commoning: The case of Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren, Kosovo, with invited speaker Ares Shporta, will examine community organising and bottom-up approaches to cultural policy & institution building. Sign up using the link below: